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Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive) |
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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Sat Aug 29 01:00:24 2015, in response to Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive), posted by dkupf on Thu Aug 27 22:44:48 2015. The surrounding communities near the College of SI actually want a cross-island route to serve it.I live in one of those neighborhoods, and there already is a cross-island route serving us: The S59. In any case, if you were so familiar with what those neighborhoods want, you'd know that Willowbrook Road south of Watchogue is a narrow residential street. In fact, they've removed the double yellow line that used to be there. I highly doubt those people would be too happy about a bus route running down their street (especially in both directions). And on top of that, Willowbrook Road north of Watchogue lines up with Stewart Avenue south of Watchogue, which is again, a narrow residential street. The only street wide enough to accommodate bus service is Woolley Avenue. And for the amount of trouble to detour the S57 all the way to CSI and back, you might as well create a new route to cover the Willowbrook Road corridor (which, as I said before isn't even that crucial considering there's many other routes in the general area). And on top of that, you're going to have all the riders going to Port Richmond (or for that matter, Westerleigh) having to sit through that long CSI detour. And do you realize that the wait to turn left into CSI can back up all the way down to North Gannon Avenue, right? So you could easily be adding 20 minute to the trip of those in Westerleigh & Port Richmond. My original Watchogue Road route did terminate in Arlington, so your idea is nothing new. But after some thought, I decided that it would be better for Bulls Head/Graniteville residents, and more efficient for the MTA to have the same configuration that they have for the LGA routes, where the buses take their primary layover at the opposite end. |
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